• Tuesday, the president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, said that the prosecutor who requested the trial said "burnt police officers from Viry-Châtillon" had explained that the alleged perpetrators represented "a chance for France ".

    The sentence, quickly picked up on social networks, caused an uproar in the political and media world.

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    the cabinet of Valérie Pécresse specified that this quote came from an interview with Thibault de Montbrial, the lawyer for one of the civil parties, at 

    Le Figaro

     last Sunday.

    During the latter, the lawyer evokes the requisition of the prosecutor, who would have concluded according to him by declaring that the defendants were a "wealth for the country".

  • According to our information, the Advocate General would in fact have quoted the philosopher Paul Ricoeur on the notion of forgiveness and repentance, declaring that "citizens from different backgrounds [...] are the wealth of our country", and that the accused , not displeasing them, were also part of it.

“A prosecutor cannot tell criminals who wanted to burn police officers alive that they are 'a chance for France'.

It is in these words written on Twitter Tuesday that the president (Libres!) Of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, commented on the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal to acquit eight of the thirteen young accused for trying to burn police officers from Viry-Châtillon, in Essonne, in 2016.

A prosecutor cannot tell criminals who wanted to burn police officers alive that they are "a chance for France."



Justice was faulty because it did not take the measure of the atrocity of what happened at # ViryChâtillon.

Exemplary penalties were needed!

pic.twitter.com/kVmLwJwyJu

- Valérie Pécresse (@vpecresse) April 20, 2021

This decision proves that justice is "failing" and that the Court of Appeal "did not take the measure of the atrocity of what happened", judge Valérie Pécresse, for whom "exemplary penalties Should have been spoken.

Five sentences ranging from 6 to 18 years in prison were however pronounced by the jurors.

Marine Le Pen, the president of the national assembly (RN), did not hesitate to rush into the breach.

At the microphone of RTL Tuesday evening, she said she was shocked by these reported comments: "The attorney general who is supposed to be the lawyer of the company, who is directly under the orders of the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti has began his indictment by telling these young people that they are an asset for society.

[…] How do you want us to admit that?

"

But where does this sentence really come from, which ignites the political and media class, supposedly pronounced by the representative of the public prosecutor during his requisitions?

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, Valérie Pécresse's press attaché indicated that the president of the Île-de-France region had read this sentence in 

Le Figaro.

Last Sunday, the daily marked on the right indeed published an interview with Thibault de Montbrial, the lawyer for one of the policewomen burned in the attack on Viry-Châtillon in 2016.

"One of the two attorneys general concluded his requisitions by declaring to the defendants that they had according to him '' empathy '', and that they constituted in his eyes '' a wealth for the country "", Narrates the lawyer specializing in the defense of law enforcement in 

Le Figaro,

for whom this verdict is a "judicial shipwreck"

. 

Note that "wealth for the country" turns into "luck for France" in the tweet of the president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse.

"Citizens of different horizons are the wealth of our country"

The words of one of the prosecutors, whose indictment lasted long hours, nevertheless seem very different from what Master de Montbrial made him say, and by extension Valérie Pécresse and Marine Le Pen. A source close to the case reported to

20 Minutes

the remarks made by the Advocate General. According to this, he would have quoted the philosopher Paul Ricoeur and his notion of forgiveness and repentance. Excerpts:

"To be able to allow those who had committed delinquent acts and who had been convicted, to find their future place in society: to respect oneself by assuming one's criminal responsibility in order to improve and build a new life course by respecting those around them. Take responsibility for your actions and become a man. To do this, it will be a question of breaking this law of silence, this omerta generating violence of which you were the authors on October 8, 2016, by dialoguing, exchanging, speaking, not to spread rumors or to speak only between you. , but with the others, all the others, beyond the rue de la Serpente and the Grande Borne, with all the citizens from different backgrounds and who make the wealth of our country of which you are, do not mind , also children. "

It is no longer only the accused who make “the wealth of our country”, but all the “citizens of different horizons”, of which they belong, like all of us, whether they like it or not.

A notable difference that Thibault de Montbrial does not want to hear.

The publication of the report of a debate held in camera is prohibited.

With CNews, he acknowledges that the attorney general quoted Paul Ricoeur, but considers that the latter deviated from his speech, and that he was not in his role by asserting that the defendants "had something to do with it. 'empathy' for the police officers burned in the attack on Viry-Châtillon.

Viry-Châtillon trial: "The Advocate General said to these young people" I think you have empathy ".

(...) My client who was just behind me burst into tears, ”testifies Thibault de Montbrial, in #HDPros pic.twitter.com/e4MnzUGi5f

- CNEWS (@CNEWS) April 21, 2021

According to article 33 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, it is however clearly specified that the Attorney General "is required to take written requisitions" and that he "may freely develop the oral observations that he considers appropriate for the good of justice. ".

A debate which should not take place anyway. The publication of the report of a debate held in camera, "in any way whatsoever", to which Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen and Thibault de Montbrial were engaged constitutes an offense in France.

The law even provides that he can be punished with a fine of 15,000 euros.

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